Buddhist Faith and Sudden Enlightenment

Buddhist Faith and Sudden Enlightenment explains how sudden enlightenment occurs through the awakening of patriarchal faith. This is the non-dual affirmation that one is already Buddha as opposed to the doctrinal, dualistic faith that one can become Buddha. The essence of the presentation is that patriarchal faith forms the basis for sudden enlightenment in Zen meditation. For the practitioner, this book establishes the Zen method of mind-cultivation on a higher level by introducing a new understanding of awakening right faith.
Included is extensive material on the history of faith in Buddhism with the main attention devoted to Ch'an (Zen) and Hua-yen. There are also substantial discussions of Buddhist antecedents to these schools and of the Pure Land School.
This is the first book in English to examine the central role of faith in Mahayana Buddhism. The author's approach develops from his personal experiences as a son (Zen) monk of the Chogye order, which was heavily influenced by the integration of meditation and scriptural study established by Chinul.

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Sung Bae Park is Professor of Asian Philosophy and Religions and Director of the Center for Korean Studies at Stony Brook University, State University of New York. He is the author of Buddhist Faith and Sudden Enlightenment, also published by SUNY Press.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Sung Bae Park
• Verlag: State University of New York Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 30.06.1983
• EAN: 9780873956741
• ISBN: 978-0-87395-674-1
• Seiten: 211
• Abmessung: 151 mm x 226 mm x 17 mm
• Gewicht: 317 g
• Serien: Suny Series in Religious Studi; Suny Series in Religious Studi
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Religion/Theologie > Weitere Religionen; Sachbuch > Philosophie, Religion > Weitere Weltreligionen